The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-08
THE RAILROADS.

IT Is estimated that $40, 600, 900 is
being expended In Montana this year In the
constr uction Of railroads.
The mar agement Of two or three In.
diana roads are troubled to get rev steel
rails to make the imp 'oyemens they desire
this year.
]. j. RoGKRs havlrg resigned, w. NJ.
Rhett has been appointed assistant general
Texas m d the Kansas and Cuff Short Line
railroads. with headquarters at st. Louis.
SUBSCRIPTIONS 20 the new issus Of
s. .OCo. 900 stock In tho Pennsylvania Railroad
Company have closed. 1t L. sad that nearly
all the stock has bean taken by Stockholders.
SUPERINTENDENT NEILsos, Of the
Vandalia. Is reported 10 have amour co A his
intention OF cutting down the running time
between st. Louis and Cincinnati TO ten
hours.
President CLEVELAND yesterday ap.
pointed Thomas A, Carter, OF Ozark, Ark.
70 be appraiser Of the right OF way Of the
Kansas and Arkansas Valley railroad
through the linda Territory.
LccoMoTIvK and car builders, and
manufacturers Of all kind, Of railway sup
plies. are said to have transacted within S3
per cent. Ms much business during the first
SIX months OF the current year as they did
during the entire year OF 1886.
CHKroPA (Kas.) special: 4 survey
ing cOrp,, headed by r. NJ. whitman, ar.
rived at this place Saturday, running a line
from Chsrryvalo to Neo,ho, Mo-, for the
Memphis, Kansas aud Western. Yesterday
they found y % crossing over tho NeoshO
river, aud are now goiT & due east from here
TO Baxter Spribgs. The surveyors say the
road will be constructed at oncs.
GENERAL MASAGKR PoTTkR SAWS that
the strictest econ omy was ne cessa-y to salts
fy tho expectations Of the Union Pacih
stool olders. and that the May expenses OF
the road we're s26b,OOO In excess of those Of
the corresponding month OF the year pre-
yious, while the recet 70 showed no crease.
His aim, he says, will be 10 pull the Union
Pacific out OF the ire.
The Railroad Com miss ioner'r repor,
Of earnings Of railroad, In South Ca, lins
for May, compared with May of last year,
shsws large increase. The total bushes,
for May Wa, N2O,UOO, or 10 per cent. incfeA,,
over May, 1885. The incr ase In tonnsgs Wal
West the passenger business Of the t,hyill,
and Spartanburs road has increased 2s pei
cent.
The Grand Trunk road IL having Ia
passenger cars equipped with the "usvslsrs
head rest" the invention Of . Montrsa
man, Il consist, Of . we'll padded cushion
which hts into the panel between the win
dowt, and when lowered for use 10 about al,
inches above the ordinary seat, into which I
hts, supported uron one standard, aud the
hinge upon which IL works raised out OF the
car panel, TO which II 10 secured by a hook.
On July LIST the Erie aud Nypanc
placed on sale 1900 mile tickets at cents pc
mile. which will DO accepted for the pas,ag,
Of the purchaser and any member Of hi
family. travelling tsfsthsr or separately y,
They will also be sold TO bushes, firms and
will be accepted for any m, mber or repre-
sentative Of the brm travelling at in eI
pente, but will be good only Tor the pAssag,
Of one person alta time.
EIeHT years have not elapsed, say
the London Standard, since the world hear,
with horror that the great viAduet scrou th
Tay had been blown down by storm on,
December night, and passing train full o
holiday makers plunged 10 the black water
below. Yet with such energy has the worl
Of rcparation been pushed that the nev
bridge. which Il such an Important link II
the railway connections WITH the north, vii
In n few weeks be completely restored. IL Il
the greatest railroad bridge In the world.
Col. Conn, the construction eDgi
nesr Of the Louisville and Nashville. say
that the first iron ever made With coke soutl
Of the Ohio river vas prodaced at Chat,a
nooga in the years 1859 and 1860 by the Eas
Tenne.s,s Coal and Iron Company, 4 which
Giles Edward Fl, nov President Of Edwards
Iron Company, at Woodttlck, Ala, vas a
superintondcat. Robert C3avens, Of Chat
tanooRa, was the president Of the CO npany
lie says that Gen. Warner, Of the Wafnt
furnace At Chattanooga, viii verify thi
statement.
TBE Fort Worth Daily Gasene hal
published an extra edition devoted largsl,
10 an exposition Of the wonderful Erorlh o
that city by reason Of railways. 1, pub
fishes MAO Of the city and a. other show
inE the numefop, railway lines TadiAtihI
from that center and sqmaafiIes the w9nd
etiul progress Of that place a. follows For
worth, POPULATION, 1875, l,OD0i population
1857, 1900. First railroad, 1876; seventh
railroad, lssl-ien GU lets by rail Eighth rail
road, located ninth tailroAd. located tent
railroad, eh artersd thirteen outlets by rail
LOUISVILLE Courier. Journal. 9TH,
suspension Of the Ions and short haul clau
granted Southern roads on April 9th By III
Interstate Commission has expired, and III
clause IL now equally operative In all part
OF the country. By tho dsoisisn rsndsrs,
several weeks ago, the roads are allowed 4
NEE, water composition, and a. every lin
tltion !, and how II shall be met the read
are aboul ~ Tree a. they care 10 be, Yer
lev changes In tarif have been made In con
sequence q the Law going fully into snsc
in the south, and these only tor uni Import
usily. and the eject on bu,lns,, 10 hardi
pereoptible."
VETERAN passenger men say IN
they have ieldom known rates a. badly d.
moraliIsd in all directions 40 at the pr,,sn
time. "If there l. q baseball club" he say,
going anywhere. this IL made a rssson 10
giving reduced rates 10 such point. II thsr
IL 20 be a minister meeting In this or q
adjoining state, u u m de = pteteHt for giy
! ms reduced rates. 10 fact" be ssid, ever
| little tubtoriuge 10 hit upon 10 furnish SON
eauie for reduction In rates, all Of uhic
" favorable 20 scalpefs, who set hold ofguc
tickets and sell them 10 regular travel. Yel
/ while the passenger earnings sh0H a.
han dsomely, there ita a sposition 20 |,
: every dis,rct agent name any rate
| chooses, " enough sro going 10 constitute
/ party.
WIS. FRANCIS, land and immigri
ton agent Of the Louisville aud Nashrill,
reports that immigrants are aochins int
the country along the line 81 that road II,
Gently they have been settling largely I
Sumner, Robinson and Houston countie
Tennsuse, and simp'on, Losan and Tod
counties In Kentucky. No less then fort
| prosper ous families have been added 10 N
population ~ the last three cOuntiss name
/ within ths past q ghtsen month. They AZ